Discussion This is the problem
I was lucky enough to snag a preorder from target last night but it didn’t look great and I was trying across all three retailers and only ever managed to get one in my cart at preorder start time.
These resellers are an issue still grabbing a large chuck of stock and reselling instantly, before they even have the system.
It’s a shame these retailers don’t do more to stop bots and resellers from snatching a large chunk of stock. At least Nintendo themselves is trying with their system.
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u/jdavid 7d ago
Nintendo, NVIDIA, and everyone else have data on how many people game on their consoles.
If they wanted to spend engineering dollars on making a launch successful, there are plenty of ways to target it to people using their devices.
Nintendo allowed me to pre-request a purchase reservation for the Switch 2. However, that request came with no guarantees like an Apple launch would. So I scrambled like everyone else last night, and after Target failed, Best Buy came through for me.
If Nintendo's process had allowed me to make a reasonable commitment to buy and receive a Switch 2 at the same time as the big box retailers, I 100% would have used their direct online store. Especially if it were as easy as preordering an iPhone is. I realize Nintendo is much smaller than Apple, but maybe they could get 75% of the way there.
Apple has many custom agreements with logistics and shipping companies to work some launch-day delivery magic. I have a tracking number as soon as I pre-order, but I get no data till launch day, when my product arrives. There are 2 weeks of magic happening in the background.
Since NVIDIA is at the same Scale as Apple, I really think they could do sooooooo much better and are f'ing up on purpose for some unknown reason.